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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;okbustchaser, post: 2031292, member: 72642&quot;]Yes, de-monetized dollar coins which were readily available from brokers at 80 cents on the dollar.&nbsp; Companies would buy them up in large numbers and use them to pay their employees at what amounted to a 20% discount.&nbsp; Since the coins had no actual value other than what a storekeeper would accept for them (usually about the same 75 cents Mehl was paying) the worker took it in the shorts twice.&nbsp; The shopkeepers then sold them back to the company so that they could be used again next Friday.&nbsp; It was even worse in company towns where the stores were actually owned by the company which could then cut out the middle man.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t until 1965 that Congress again made them legal tender at $1.00.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shampoo, Rinse, Repeat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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